In 2024 election:
60% of Lafayette county voted R.
Oktibbeha county was split 50/50.
I get it's popular to "sports team bad" = "politics team bad", but let's understand the facts. They are the republican county and school. Faculty be damned. It took them until the 21st century to get rid of the plantation owner mascot. They still haven't changed their name. Outside observers look at Ole Miss as the snobby, preppy, racist school. They look at State as the backwoods, country, blue-collar working class school. Which - yea probably fair descriptors. They bring the racist thing on themselves with the noose on Meredith's statue (an incident more people know OM for than for being the first post-shooting event for TPUSA)
Like others have said - hell even some dude with more time on our hands on SPS did the research - no one outside of your social media algorithm designed to make you rage actually gives a damn.
Post in thread 'Since the John Bond thread is already locked' https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/since-the-john-bond-thread-is-already-locked.8403533/post-173789618 Post 15 does all the research to see just how little this matters.
OM didn't beat shit. Let's change the title of this thread and close it down. It's only gonna devolve from here and I just don't have the mental bandwidth to do the arguing and then get a timeout.
In 2024 election: